/lit/ - Literature

>>14338796
true that

>>14048211
he was literally an angel

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

Thanks to my brothers and sisters bumping this thread. Peace be with you. I think it could be profitable to make this thread a regular fixture.

DAILY READINGS:

First Reading
EXODUS 16:1-5, 9-15
>And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.
>And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
>And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
>And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.
>But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.
>Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.
>And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness: and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
>And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
>I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel: say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.
>So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning, a dew lay round about the camp.
>And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
>And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given you to eat.

Responsorial Psalm
PSALMS 78:18-19, 23-28
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
He rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.
He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.
He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.

Christ is waiting for you at the bottom of the iceberg

>>12294044
Protestantism inspires nothing and is dead on the inside, much like their churches. They criticize Catholics for so called ostentatious materialism in their cathedrals but forget that this not only venerated God, but inspired countless people to draw their hearts and souls upward instead of around them.

Putting donations to so-called better use is a harmful mentality as it makes individuals feel as if their donations to charitable causes and so forth makes them a "good person" to compensate for their inability to serve others in their own lives. Protestants seldom give money to anyone, except perhaps as a loan (often expecting interest!). Everyone has friends, family and neighbors that are suffering, but protestants, turn a blind eye, and say 'not my problem' and yet, to a "Mission" in some third-world country they donate $150 a month, as if that compensates for walking over the Lazaruses in their life every day. It is hypocrisy, and also is an act of making you feel powerful, as though it is you, and not God's grace that made this all possible.
You need to look up to God instead of making yourself God.

>>11172729
Being and Time Heidegger

>>10923459
It is the most influential book in existence. This cannot be denied, and should speak for itself.

Philosophy aims to learn of the truth, and there is no truth outside of God. Read and judge for yourself. Aquinas and Augustine are incredible reading.

I apologize for being brief; asserting without explanation. I tire and must sleep.

In short, you need to read it if you are a conscious being.

>>6094965
#smh

>>6094966
I think it's a beautiful picture.